Fear, fear is what Daniel experienced every second of the Holocaust, fear that he would be killed or tortured. During the Holocaust millions of Jews were killed. They were forced to go to concentration camps where most of them were forced to work. Once they were unable to work they were sent off to the gas chambers. Adolf Hitler was able to convince the Germans that the source of all of their problems was Jews. Adolf Hitler was a motivational speaker people believed him. Causing millions of German to harm Jews. By the time the war was over thousands of people continued to die. Not having the hope to keep living, or that there was anyone in the world that would accept them. Many would still live in fear and never recover from what they have been through. The experiences that have the greatest impact on daniel are when Aunt leah and a young boy are murdered in cold blood, causing him to fear the Nazis. …show more content…
He is stunned by how The officer “casually raise his pistol’(36) and kills Aunt Leah. Daniel wonders how the officer could shoot Leah without showing emotion, casually as if he did this every day. Which he most likely did. Daniel is so impacted that he “doesn't even cry”, He knew that the Nazis didn't like Jews but how could this hatred justify for killing another human. And he wonders how his entire race is beginning to be wiped out, and few people even know. The significance of this of this event how daniel remembers Her. Even though she was strict she loved her children and made the ultimate sacrifice for them, but it was in vain. Daniel will remember her sacrifice and feel sorrow for all the people he has seen
This means that because of this tragedy, Daniel is filled with guilt and gets sent to jail. This is shown when Daniel blames himself for the “mess” in which he created. Due to this remorse, “[Daniel has] hit the wall again” in attempt to suicide. Daniel feels that “[he] fucked up everything” and decides to suicide in hope that everything will be back to normal. Daniel being affected is also shown when he gets sentenced to go to jail. He gets sentenced to “two years’ imprisonment…with a non-parole period of three years.” Although Daniel deserves the sentence it further proves how an accident could cause someone to go to jail. This further proves that Daniel is one of the victims of the domino effect from the
The parents have played a very important role in Daniels life. They brought him up always showing him what's wrong and what's right, what choices to make, and who to trust. Being a parent means that you should always be in control of your children for as long as possible. Daniel was said to be the type that needed guidance even though he came across as a strong and independent. His mother knew this, but even she was scared of what he was capable of. When times got rough the parents backed off and let him make his own choices. That wasn’t the best move to make. The parents might have shown love and affection to Daniel but they truly couldn’t see what was going on. If only they had paid enough attention to Daniel maybe they could witness how badly he was coming off the rails. They could of helped him. Helped him to make the right choices.
Daniel now declares himself as only half human and he too will be in danger. This news devastates Daniel especially because his best friend can still join the Hitler Youth. Throughout the next couple of years of Daniel’s life Jewish people start getting treated awfully. Although the teenager can still go to the same school he and his family are hated by the surrounding community. While Daniel and his family struggle not only financially but also with their safety, Armin is ranking up in the youth. Armin starts secretly dating daniel’s cousin, Miriam. He is then caught by his Youth leader Blohm. Blohm is furious with Armin because Miriam is a Jew as is Daniel. This is when Armin is forced to chose between himself or his friends. That night Blohm and some other members of the SA raid Daniel’s house in search of him and Miriam. Fortunately they escape in time. In the next couple months Reichard (Daniel’s Father) decides that it would be safer to leave Germany. So in late 1939 Daniel’s family leaves on a ship to Cuba. The Author then switches back to Daniel’s first person point of view as an American soldier. Daniel’s job is an interpreter and during his time in Hamburg he is interviewing German soldiers. Suddenly a German
In other words, he just lost his uncle, who was very important to him. In addition, in (Matas8) of chapters 5 - 9 it states, “I only hope Oma and Opa wouldn’t be made to suffer too much.” This shows that, his grandma and grandpa were taken away. In other words, he had two other family members die because of the Nazis. In conclusion, Daniel lost many people in his family during the Holocaust.
Everybody changes even if it's just puberty or just in the way you act. Change is shown everywhere in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel. It’s not just shown physically but it’s also shown mentally. He also had to make many difficult decisions through his journey through the Holocaust. Night is about Pain and Suffering that was caused by the holocaust, and most of that pain was put on the jews.
"If you do not change direction you may end where you were heading". That quote was from Lao Tuz who was a religious philosopher and poet form China in 604 BC. During the book Night you could see it in not just Elie Wiesel, but you could see it in everyone. You could see change in Elie not just in his physical appearance, not emotionally, and mentally. People can or cannot say they've seen worse except for the people who survived war and the camps and which has led them to be mentally broken down. During the Holocaust Elie has changed in his faith, his struggle in the camp, and how his personality changed.
In the book Daniel's story it is the story of death, and survival, of desperation, hope, evil and also lots of love. The story is told from Daniel’s perspective as he is experiencing the atrocities of the holocaust for jews in central Europe. When the story starts, he is a fourteen year old boy, riding on a train while looking at his pictures in the photo album. Daniel uses a photograph album to spark back his memory of the events from when he was six years old until the day he and his family are forced on to a train bound for the lode of ghetto. But after spending two and a half years in ghetto, Daniel is riding on a train again, but this time to Auschwitz labor/death camp and he has a few pictures with him that tells the times when he was in ghetto. He took pictures of
The holocaust is one of the most horrific, disgusting, painful things that have ever happened in history, but how did that affect suffering the victims of this time. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie is affected by the events in the book because he stopped believing in his religion, no longer cared about his father, and lost his humanity.
That’s what he liked about Armin and the HJ, it’s what made them appealing, no matter what situations they may put him into. Daniel is very trusting with where he places his loyalty. So trusting, I’d say, that I would call his loyalty nearly puppylike, the way he blindly follows around his more assertive peers. This loyalty changes however, at the start of the Holocaust, when he discovers he is half-Jewish, and is forced to rethink all of the people in which he placed his trust. Many of which, he doesn’t find worthy for his trust anymore, after seeing what they really are. For example, on pg. 155, when he proclaims, “I’d decided I was not a German anymore. I’d been prepared to go to war and give my life for this country, this people. But that was a
Millions of families were destroyed by the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel states, “Men to the left! Women to the right!”(29). Those were the words they feared to hear because the kwen it might be the last time they were together. Ms. Doron from the tattoo article says, “To me, it’s a scar”, “The fact that young people are choosing to get the tattoos is, in my eyes, a sign that we’re still carrying the scar of the Holocaust”(15). For some people those numbers revive the past that caused them extremely pain.
After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects. Wiesel’s identity changed completely during his experiences in Auschwitz; he lost his faith in God and he became indifferent to his survival and the survival of his family members. Despite these hardships, however, he ultimately became a stronger person than he was before.
One of the most sorrow thing that human would ever have been through is to be treated inhumanity and brutally abused. Like the quote clearly stated, “Band-Aids don’t fix bullet hole”, Holocaust had given the Jews a deep scar that would follow them until they buried down under the ground. The nightmare began when Hitler took over the control and targeted to assassinate 6 millions of alive Jews who were living in Germany. They were all murdered in different ways, it could be starving till death, forced to do overwork or got whipped as a punishment for not working hard. Overall life was tough for them, they were forced to work long hours and lived in a poor conditions. Jews were born to be the target for Hitler and the Nazis to discriminate
The novel “Night” written by Elie Wiesel is the memoir of a young Wiesel's’ survival through concentration camps during the Holocaust; through his narrative Wiesel shows that faith is a necessity towards survival when dealing with complications or uncertainty.
Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences
The American Psychological Association defines a traumatic event as, “one that threatens injury, death, or the physical integrity of self or others and also causes horror, terror, or helplessness at the time it occurs” (American Psychological Association, 2008). With this definition in mind, it no surprise that the Holocaust is one of the most traumatic events in history. Millions upon millions of people either lost their own lives, or watched the lives of their loved ones be taken right in front of their eyes. Many survivors solemnly admit that the hardest deaths to watch were those of children. In fact, an estimated 1.5 million children were killed during the tragedy (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016). However, one cannot help but wonder what happened to the children who did survive. Elie Wiesel was one of those children who was ‘lucky’ enough to survive. However his ‘luck’ came at a severe price. Elie Wiesel suffers both severe emotional and physical trauma in his novel, Night.